Improvement in charging apparatus for iron-heating furnaces



W. F. MAHAR G.

Charging Apparatus for Iron Heating Furnaces.

No. 134,151. Patented Dem 24,1872.

I Wilhwsw v WILLIAM nMAnAne, or sr. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHARGING APPARATUS FOR IRON-HEATING FURNACES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,151, dated Deceniher24, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. MAHARG,

of St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Peels for Charging Heating-Furnaces in the Manufacture of Iron; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this spectlication, in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the apparatus, and Fig. 2 represents a top plan of the peel.

sion rod or brace b, in any of the usual wellknown ways, is supported in an upper and under arm or bracket, 2' j, so that it may swing or turn therein. These arms or brackets ij may be built in or attached to the corner of the furnace in the common well-known way. On the arm or rail 0 of the crane is mounted a carriage or truck, d d, to the side straps or bars e of which is attached a hook, k, that sustains or carries a swivel, m, to which is suspended a bar, f, the upper and under ends of which bar are so bent as to make the vertical portion thereof stand outside of the points of suspension of the arms, and thus admit the vertical portion to be brought up against. the

I door of the furnace, for a purpose to be hereafter explained. The peel g is flattened out at its end n, so that the pile or load to be carried upon it may have proper support thereon. On the upper side of the peel there is an eye, 0, for receiving the hook p on the end of the under arm of the barf, by which said peel is carried; and back of this eye there are ratchet-teeth q, against which the free end of a brace, h, which is pivoted to the bar f at 1', may take to support and steady the peel when carrying its load; and at the extreme rear end of the peel there is a handle or graspingpiece, s, by which the operator guides and directs the peel and its load and deposits the latter in any suitable place in the furnace.

The operation is as follows: The iron for the charge is prepared on a table of about the height of the peel or furnace-door. The peel is then swung around by the crane to said table or stand, and the flat end or of the peel is passed under the pile or charge so as to carry and sustain it, and the brace h arranged to steady the load. The operator guiding and controlling the peel, thelatter with its charge is swung by the crane around to, and the end of the peel and the pile into, the furnace, the bend or. bow of the barf admitting of this operation. When the pile or charge is in proper position the operator, by means of the peel,

drops or deposits it in the furnace.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- In combination with a swinging crane, the carriage d, bar f, and peel g, constructed, arranged, and operating as and for the purpose described and represented.

WVM. F. MAHARG.

Witnesses L. R. Woons, F. ARMSTRONG. 

